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Quotes by Psychologist
"We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens."
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"I am not a Sunday morning inside four wallswith clean bloodand organized drawers.I am the hurricane setting fire to the forestsat night when no one else is aliveor awakehowever you choose to see itand I live in my own flamessometimes burning too bright and too wildto make things lastor handlemyself or anyone elseand so I run.run run runfar and wideuntil my bones ache and lungs splitand it feels good.Hear that people? It feels goodbecause I am the slave and ruler of my own bodyand I wish to do with it exactly as I please."
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"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
3
"The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence."
3
"Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity."
3
"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."
3
"The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest."
3
"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational."
3
"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."
3
"Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas."
3
"Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity."
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"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
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"Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless."
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"Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster."
3
"Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian."
3
"The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology."
3
"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."
3
"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
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"Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world."
3
"We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office."
3
"Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created."
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"There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it."
2
"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
2
"These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way."
2
"'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm."
2
"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next."
2
"Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human."
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"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."
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"Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation."
2
"Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable."
2
"Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives."
2
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
2
"When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War."
2
"A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action."
2
"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
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"Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world."
2
"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."
2
"Every crisis offers you extra desired power."
2
"I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame."
2
"There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event."
Fact,
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"One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways."
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"Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person."
2
"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency."
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"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves."
Fear,
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"In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs."
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"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
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